FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA
MEREMAIDS
ritain has, by my calculations, about 30 mermaid placenames: Mermaid’s Chair on Orkney, Mermaid’s Rock in Cornwall and Mermaid’s Kirk in Arbroath… There are several interesting patterns with these names, but the most shocking is the ratio of saltwater to freshwater sites. Mermaids are creatures of
